Video games could help treat cognitive disorders like depression and ADHD
Video games could help treat cognitive disorders like depression and ADHD
Video games could help treat cognitive disorders like depression and ADHD
By Keller Gordon
Summary
Video games can amuse or distract, sometimes inspire, which means they engage the brain with tasks.
So some researchers are hoping video games could help treat cognitive disorders from depression and ADHD to mental decline from aging.
Keller, you start by describing a video game developed at a lab at the University of Utah.
It's from a federally funded nonprofit lab that makes games dedicated to treating cognitive disorders, mostly those in aging brains.
Are private companies getting into video game therapy as well? GORDON: Yeah.
They say patients who play the game will only really get better at playing games like it, like Mario Kart.
Reference
Gordon, K. (2022, April 28). Video games could help treat cognitive disorders like depression and ADHD. Retrieved May 5, 2022, from https://www.npr.org/2022/04/28/1095365177/video-games-could-help-treat-cognitive-disorders-like-depression-and-adhd